Yes this is real:
They team up to defeat a Borg/Cyberman alliance.
Who allowed this?
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Monday, March 5th, 2012Five Gifts
Sunday, March 4th, 2012I received a great many gifts for my birthday. Too many! Here’s five of them, from five different people.
From JAF I received this stunning Lego kit (reviewed as one of the best Technic kits ever made):
From SFL I received a very clever Star Wars t-shirt (can you get the joke?):
From myself I received Heuvelman’s legendary opus from 1965 on sea monsters:
From JBF I received a Kuroneko Figma:
And from KLS I received an unopened box of trading cards. Note the warning on the bottom:
I’ll update to include BFS’s gift when it arrives 😉
Here’s What My Brother Is (Not!) Getting Me For My Birthday
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012Every day, when I hear Mr Postman deliver, I eagerly trot down to the box to remove what surely must be arriving any day now: a birthday parcel from my brother.
Alas, I am every time disappointed; the fated package is yet to arrive.
Since my brother is the world’s very worst answerer-of-FaceTime calls, I’m going to use this entry to send a tiny nugget of information. I am assuming Bernard, that you’re birthday shopping for me is completed. As such, I can only imagine that you must have purchased for me the following item:
As a Star Wars fan yourself, I have no doubt that Colonel Cracken is as beloved a character to you as he is me. Who can forget the battle against the Imperial Fleet in Jedi, when Lando and Nien Numb courageously flew the Millenium Falcon into the incomplete second Death Star to destroy it? True fans such as you and me surely know that success was in no small part due to the valiance of Airen Cracken, who was a crew member on that flight. As such, I have no doubt that the (long overdue!) action figure of the man himself shot to the very top of the list of items you surely wanted to give me to celebrate my birthday.
Alas, it is with a heavy heart that I must say that you’re going to have to return the one you bought, since I myself purchase this very figure today! It even now rests on my desk in a place of great pride.
And next time answer FaceTime when I call, so we can avoid these mixups in the future 😉
Grid runner
Saturday, February 25th, 2012The new Llamasoft iOS game is out, and what did Mr Minter bring us this time?
He wrote a blog post about how easy it was to port the game to iOS using (IIRC) some old ST code. Since it was so quick and easy, and the release is so close after Caverns of Minos, the sheer brilliance of this game was unexpected. It’s a major update of the game that made him famous 30 years ago.
His iOS games always have a hardware theme, and until now he’s done 2600, Intellivision, Vic 20 etc. Gridrunner is ‘1980’s arcade game’, and he’s absolutely nailed it, since the graphics bring to mind a classic such as Galaxian. Of course only in spirit, since I doubt this madness was possible in those old arcade boards:
This game is only $0.99, and it’s close to perfect tablet gaming. Absolutely gets my highest recommendation, and if your initials are AW and you don’t have an iOS device games like this is why you should get one ASAP 🙂
Oh yes… It has the Vic 20 and C64 versions included (rotate the device to landscape):
Type 40?
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Here’s a photo of me holding something I got for Christmas from SFL:
It’s a light up Tardis soap! Who made it? Where did she get it? Who knows! It’s small but very detailed. Here’s a close up:
It came in a pack of two with a Dalek (that doesn’t light up any more). An unusual but very cool gift.
Sooo, it must be used! And I’m posting about it today since tomorrow I shall start using it in the shower.
You could almost say that tomorrow this Tardis soap will… dematerialize 😉